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WORLD HISTORY
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The Justinian Code
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The Byzantine Legal System
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The Twelve Tables
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The Constitution
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Detailed explanation-1: -Justinian found the collection of laws from the old Roman empire confusing and set about to streamline them. He appointed a ten-man commis-sion to sort out outdated laws and recast the laws into contemporary language.
Detailed explanation-2: -Although the Code of Justinian was not, in itself, a new legal code, it rationalized hundreds of years of existing Roman statutes. Contradictions and conflicts were eliminated, and any existing laws that were not included in it were repealed.
Detailed explanation-3: -It served its purpose of bringing law and order back to the empire. The pursuit of the Code of Justinian was to design a versatile collection of statutes that all of Byzantine could adhere to and was given presidency over any regional regulations, discouraging contradictions in court directives.
Detailed explanation-4: -Justinian’s best-known work was as a codifier and legislator. He greatly stimulated legal studies, and in 528 he set up a commission to produce a new code of imperial enactments or constitutions, the Codex Constitutionum.